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Getting started

Let's discover what Simuscle is capable of in less than 5 minutes.

General workflow​

Simuscle workflow explain

Download​

Refere to the Download page to see how to install Simuscle on your device.

(Currently, Simuscle is only supported on Linux)

Installation​

This step can be the harder step, follow the installation instruction that match your device caracteristique:

Export geometry to Simuscle​

You should have access to a human body musculo-skeleton included in Simuscle. A Blender file containg the geometry, muscles and bones is located at Simuscle/Example/Human_Example.blend You can open it to see how the musculo-skeleton have to be done. The constraint to export it to SImuscle is detailled on the Tutorial part.

If you had correctly installed the Blender add-on, you can export the musculo-skeleton to Simuscle by clicking on File->Exoirt->Simuscle (dir). You can choose the name of your project

That will create a directory with all the geometries and informations that Simuscle need to compute the simulation.

Open Simuscle​

If Simuscle is correctly installed, you can open your project with the follwing command:

simuscle path/to/yout/project/dir

Now a window with the human musculo-skeleton should apear, and you should see the human geometry